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The Fine Art of Textiles

This composition is based on General Washington's Resignation, which was drawn by John James Barralet (1747 - 1815), engraved by Alexander Lawson (1773 - 1846), and published by Benjamin Davies in Philadelphia in 1799. Dilys E. Blum, from The Fine Art of Textiles: The Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1997), p. 85.